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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel cuts employee pay to preserve cash for investment, ranging from 25% for CEO Pat Gelsinger, 15% for executive leadership, to 5% for mid-level managers — Intel Corp., struggling with a rapid drop in revenue and earnings, is cutting management pay across the company to cope with a shaky economy …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The UK government lays out plans to regulate crypto, including measures to strengthen rules for lending, disclosures, financial intermediaries, and custodians — - The U.K. laid out plan to regulate the cryptocurrency industry. — The proposals include strengthening rules on crypto lending …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A look at Microsoft's prized 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo, after a leadership overhaul, layoffs, and more; sources detail a pivot to Unreal Engine — Microsoft Corp. says it's going to keep making new games in the popular Halo franchise at its prized 343 Industries studio — despite rumors to the contrary.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI debuts a free web-based tool to help determine if text was written by a machine, rated as “very unlikely”, “unlikely”, “unclear”, “possible”, or “likely” — - “It has both false positives and false negatives,” …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sources and documents: Google asks employees to test potential ChatGPT competitors, including Apprentice Bard, a chatbot that uses its LaMDA conversational tech — - Google is testing ChatGPT-like products that use its LaMDA technology, according to sources and internal documents acquired by CNBC.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with Chris Miller, a Tufts professor and author of the book Chip War, on EUV lithography, ASML's role in global chip manufacturing, TSMC, and more — Professor Chris Miller's new book Chip War explains the complicated global politics inside your iPhone.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger form a venture to explore next-gen social apps; the first is Artifact, a TikTok-like app for news articles — EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
PayPal plans to lay off ~2,000 employees, or ~7% of its workforce, “over the coming weeks”, as the company addresses the “challenging macroeconomic environment” — - PayPal on Tuesday announced plans to lay off 2,000 employees, or around 7% of its workforce.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia is working to fix a Discord bug that slows the memory clocks on some of its GPUs by up to 200MHz, including the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti — Discord is slowing down graphics card memory clocks on some Nvidia GPUs. A recent Discord update has introduced a bug that slows down memory clocks …
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
A report by the White House's NTIA describes Apple and Google as “gatekeepers” of mobile app stores and suggests legislation to improve competition and choice — A new Biden administration report describes Apple and Google as “gatekeepers” of mobile app stores and suggests legislation … | Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Indiana-based blockchain startup SIMBA Chain, which has worked on various US military projects, raised $30M from the US Air Force, after raising $1.5M in 2020 — The USAF has granted SIMBA Chain a $30 million funding increase as part of its aims of “identifying and advancing technologies …
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches its MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, playoffs, and more for $14.99/month or $99/year — Today, Apple launched MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, Audi 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs … | Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
As memory prices plunge, SK Hynix reports a ~$1.4B Q4 operating loss, its biggest quarterly operating loss yet, vs. ~$900M est., and a 38% YoY drop in revenue — South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. reported its biggest quarterly loss on record, due to plunging prices in memory chips as tech demand fell worldwide.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $5.6B, vs. $5.5B est., net income down 98% YoY to $21M, and Client segment revenue down 51% YoY due to weak PC chip sales — - AMD reported fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations for sales and profit, but guided analysts …
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| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Sources: seeking to boost Reels' quality, Meta executives are leaning toward relaxing the company's long-standing opposition to sharing ad revenue with creators — When Wall Street analysts dial into an earnings call tomorrow with Mark Zuckerberg, they're likely to pepper the Meta Platforms CEO …
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| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Meta's Ready at Dawn studio plans to shutter Echo VR, one of the best-rated and most popular free Quest games, after layoffs, to focus on “our next project” — As a parting gift, players can claim lots of premium cosmetic items for free — The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q4 revenue flat YoY at $1.3B, vs. $1.31B est., DAUs up 17% YoY to 375M, and a $288M net loss, vs. $23M in net income YoY; stock drops 14%+ — - Snap missed on revenue for the fourth quarter but beat on earnings. — Snap had a rough 2022, as a slowing economy led numerous companies to slash their digital ad budgets.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Anker admits its Eufy security cameras are not natively E2E encrypted and produced unencrypted video streams for Eufy's web portal, but says the flaws are fixed — / Anker admits its always-encrypted cameras weren't always encrypted — and promises to do better. … First, Anker told us it was impossible.
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| Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: |
FS-ISAC report: DDoS attacks targeting banks and other financial firms had increased 22% YoY by November 2022, particularly in Europe, where they rose 73% YoY — Long considered a nuisance, distributed-denial-of-service attacks, or DDoS, are growing problem for banks and other financial businesses, according to a new report.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sentra, which classifies cloud data according to sensitivity and tracks cloud data security, raised a $30M Series A led by Standard Investments — The move to the cloud, accelerated by the pandemic, continues unabated. By 2025, Gartner estimates that over 95% of new digital workloads … Sponsor Posts
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